ST. LOUIS — If you can look past all the losing of late, there have actually been some positives for the Vancouver Canucks.
Rookie defenceman Ben Hutton continues to play like a seasoned veteran and is drawing top-pair minutes in the absence of Chris Tanev and Alex Edler.
Goaltenders Ryan Miller and Jacob Markstrom have been solid most nights.
And then there’s Nikita Tryamkin, the rookie Russian defenceman who arrived here earlier this month amidst some unrealistic expectations.
But after a nervous 12-second first shift in his Canuck debut, Tryamkin is showing that he perhaps deserved some of that hype.